Notes: The South Western's first major push westwards occurred
after collaboration with Charles Castleman, a Wimborne solicitor,
and the opening of 'Castleman's Snake' from Northam to Dorchester
during June and July 1847. From Lymington Junction, Brockenhurst,
the line swept through Holmsley (known as Christchurch Road until
1888), Ringwood, West Moors, Wimborne and Broadstone before continuing
southwestward to Wareham and Dorchester. Meanwhile, another independent
line under the title of the Salisbury & Dorset Junction Company
was promoted to link Salisbury with Wimborne: opened on 20 December
1866, the 19 miles of single track from Alderbury Junction (between
Salisbury and Dean) to West Moors was also worked by the London
& South Western Railway and absorbed in 1883. It served stations
at Downton, Breamore, Fordingbridge, Daggons Road and Verwood
and for much of its length followed the River Avon along the western
edge of the New Forest. As with local trains over the adjoining
line from Brockenhurst, the usual destination was Bournemouth
West.

On summer Saturdays in Southern days both lines served as useful
alternatives for some of the many holiday trains run at peak periods.
A few through trains from Waterloo ran to Swanage, while the Fordingbridge
line offered similar facilities for holidaymakers from South Wales
heading for the coast. Traffic on the line was always light and
closure had been proposed before the line was eventually axed
under Beeching from 4 May 1964, although goods traffic continued
to use the line to Ringwood from Broadstone Junction until October
1966, after which it was cut back to West Moors for occasional
military requirements.

The station was opened as Alderholt and renamed Daggens Road
later the same year. The spelling to Daggons Road in 1904.